A survey of user-centered design practice in China

Ronggang Zhou; Sheng Huang Shan; Xiangang Qin; Jason Huang

doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811564

A survey of user-centered design practice in China

Ronggang Zhou^*
, Sheng Huang Shan
, Xiangang Qin
, Jason Huang

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Economics and Management

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Abstract

This paper is the first time to report the results of a recent survey of user-centered design (UCD) practice in China, conducted in 2007. The survey involved over four hundred respondents who were at the User Friendly conference or attended other UCD related activities. The survey identified, e.g. practitioners' demographics and experience, the type of organization, the usage frequency of methods that are commonly used in usability community, and UCD process and assessment on it. The results indicate, UCD practice in China industries is very young, and growing fast; currently almost all UCD practice are applied in IT related business; practitioners need improvement on UCD knowledge. These findings have implications for solving the problem that how to use and integrate UCD methods and techniques into product development process.

Original language	English
Article number	4811564
Pages (from-to)	1885-1889
Number of pages	5
Journal	Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811564
State	Published - 2008
Event	2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2008 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 12 Oct 2008 → 15 Oct 2008

Keywords

UCD practice
UPA China
Usability engineering
User Friendly
User-centered design (UCD)

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